About

Started because Newcastle businesses weren't getting value from their IT provider.

DATANEXT was formed by two engineers who kept hearing the same complaint. We decided not to be a “please just make it work” IT company, and to set clear, documented paths for our clients' IT instead.

Who you're dealing with

A small team of senior engineers, not a call centre

Our founders bring decades of systems integration, managed services and telecommunications experience between them, and the rest of the team is hired and trained to the same standard. We invest in certifications because it shows up directly in the work: better-designed systems cost less to support over their life.

We've designed, built and now run our own cloud platform, Next Cloud, on Australian infrastructure. We maintain inductions at the major datacentres in Newcastle, Sydney and Perth, and we partner with Uniscope Communications for carriage so we can see your data links end to end.

What we're not: a reseller with a support desk attached. We'll recommend whatever fits — including telling you when you don't need us.

DATANEXT engineers sketching a network design on a whiteboardDESIGN REVIEW
Business owner in a hi-vis vest checking a tablet in a warehouseCLIENT SITE · HUNTER REGION

Who we work with

Businesses that depend on their systems but don't want an IT department

Most of our clients have somewhere between five and a couple of hundred staff: manufacturing and industrial, trades and construction, warehousing and logistics, health and allied health, professional services and not-for-profits. Several run across multiple sites.

What they have in common is that downtime costs real money and they'd rather pay a senior engineer by the hour than carry a full-time IT hire — or a contract they don't use.

Certifications

Current, verifiable, and on the platforms you actually run

All certifications can be verified on request.

MicrosoftMCSE Server Infrastructure · Cloud Platform & Infrastructure · MCSA
CiscoCCNA / CCIE routing and switching
VMwareVMware Certified Professional
Red HatRHCE — Red Hat Certified Engineer
UbiquitiUBRSS · UEWA · UBWA
VirtualisationXCP-ng / XenServer, Hyper-V, Linux KVM

Where we are

Head office in Cardiff, engineers where the work is

Newcastle

Head office — 59 Mitchell Road, Cardiff NSW 2285. On site across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, the Hunter and the Central Coast.

Sydney

Engineers on site across the Sydney metro area; datacentre rack space and remote hands available.

Perth

Datacentre presence and rack space in Perth, with remote support and scheduled site visits.

In their words

What clients say once the servers stop being their problem

The team at DATANEXT took our aging servers and software and migrated us to a private cloud solution. They installed their own hardware and moved us to a new solution. We really appreciate that we don't have to worry about failing servers or swapping disks for backups anymore.
Samantha TurnerRosy Twists
DATANEXT solved the problem of our five offices not being able to share data. Before we would have to email everything around. Now we have all the offices linked and can share anything we want.
DebraMacs Industrial Pipework
Whenever I need to speak to our technician he is readily available. I just didn't get that level of service with my previous IT provider.
Sarah CarrThe Chrysallis Room

Want to talk to the people who'd actually do the work?

Call the office or book a short call. You'll get an engineer, not a sales rep.